The Sun. — London, England, 1818-09-10 00:00:00

FOR TIIE SUN. Srpfenther 3, 1811. MR. EOTTOR,.—AS I rind no less than five co lumns of your Journal of this day -cconied with nn arcfllent of the Si,rewshuty Bible Soeiery, !mist infer, the my observations upon these Neeiities, and upon the Hattire of the eomhina !jou, which is, through the instromentality of the Pt ess (volunt .rily opened on your part, thooeh pfiid for iu other Journals), carrying forward its plans for the subversion of the Cloo•ch, tinder the names and titles of Bible Societies, Church Missionary Societies, and British and Foreign School Societies (not one of which said names and titles are legitimeely applied), have pi whored no coevirtion in your mind as t o their real nature an , / tendenev. It is trite, you found the name of a venerable Archdeacon in the Chair, and lie led to suppose, that nothing adverse to the Church or its establishments could be contem plated under such auspices. But yon are to .re fleet, P,that there are men in every station in lite seho,.jodging from theirowu gr,od intentions, are disposed to give credit to others, who cover their More artfull designs tinder an appearance of ran dour and liberality. It is not, however, because good men are induced, either front immature or from partial views of a question, to give their satictiou to measures whose ultimate ohject they do not perceive, that those who are more aline tea the interests of mankind, and more fully aware at the dangers by which they ate threatened, most be iodueticed. . We are to infer, that men like Walsinghain and Cecil, when they Atkr,led their coon' move to the first meeting of the Class' So cieties ((lie Bible Societies of that day), in the reign of Elizabe , h, had no intention to encourage the principle which was concealed froin their ‘iew, a nd which afterwards earried the sw o r d t o the root of the Constitution itt CHURCH and STATF. We cannot• imagine that La Fayette, and still less that the late Duke of Orleans, and other weak, vapouritig, or aspiring ooliticians, when they aided and supported the is Clubs for Reform, calculated the extent to which this Ite form might be carried in the sacrifice of their own properties or lives. ln all combinations, wit • re the protossic ► of public good is sufficiently prevalent to gild over and varnish the real pqr rift: of a few concealed and active ap,ents, orn will become parties from the purest motives ; at, oitiotts men from the hope of ascendancy ; vain mon from the love of popularity ; weak men from the influence of example ; and ladies from curiosity. Of each of these descriptions of persons you will find ample specimens in every part of the Coon tre, associated in the several Societies to which I have alluded. But these, sir, are the mete ac companiments of the scheme. moved round central point in Loto:on, to which they are obe dient in their motions, without knowing even the circle they are destined to describe. h is iu die heart—in the core—where the Broughams are reforntiog our Parliaments, and th e Wilber forces too. Creeds—that the pritwiples are to he discn%ertiti ; and here such are the watchfoluess awl care, lest the zeal or inThscretioo of Cooot,y practitioners should go too far, or traverse any of the plans which ate ripening at the fouotain head, that Deputies toe eoostantly scut do Ali, even to the exrremest parts of the Country, to watch over the ploceet'ings ao I direct tie con duct of the totem A ; the expellee of which (awl it is immense) is darayed out of the sub scriptions of Ihose good and easy persons, woo) console themseltes mulcr the conviction the their contributions are toddy applied to disperse the Bible without note or cononeat ! I bpeik within compass when I slate (eveu limn their ono printed accounts) I hat thousands upon thoosaods of pounds have been expended under this head, together with the charges fur the purchtte of support front the Press---ante that. CoOSerlaently, thousands upon thousands, whirl) should have goue to. the porchase of tells of thousands of Bibles tube only professed ground of expenditure by the Society) have been dtawn front the pockets of individuals, for a purpose oever cootemplated , --- and perhaps not even flow suspected by the Con tributors. That the venerable Piesident of the auxiliary Society (the most app ornate epithet that has been applied by the new Covenanters), to es bid) you have devoted so large a portion of your Paper, is actuated by the best motives, and that he does not even suspect the tootives by which the great agitators are influenced, 1 am perfectly satisfied, and the goodness of his heart is evinced by the Manner in which be describes, and the share he has evidently borne in contributing to give effect to, the peculiar talents and genius of a very extraordinary young man. His speech, which has but little about Bible Societies in it, and possesses consequently nide of the chat - act& of speeches, fabricated and prepared for the Press in those Meetings,-would have made su ioterest ing Extract in your Paper, and would have ap peared to notch greater advantage bad it beets de tached from the mock heroic, fulsome, flowery, anti frothy declamations, by which it was suc ceeded. will, upon reference, find, as usual, that Deerr was witnessed g` so numerous, so respect atkle, and so interesting an -Issembly, particularly of !" and a similar account in the sante form, and character of speech, 1 have seen publit,hed and republished, and recorded in Maga- R , posilaries, and Reviews, where, on my own ob-ervation, 1 can affirm that the meetings hav e consisted of not more than twenty persons (British and Foreign Secretaries from the Parent Society included), and those of the least respect aide character in the Town or District where they have been held. But this is not to the purpose. Ts Any most amiable and respectable, and well meaning persons, unquestionably, are Members of the Society, Imtli in London and in the Coun ts y ytt 1 repeat, and it cannot too often be re rated, this cannot alter the nature, or affect the s, of THE SOCIETY iiSC/f. The Pt esbylerians in the reign of Charles I. were !en to one, or more, in the scale of comparison i:h the IN9IIII NM NTS, hut the former gave pc wer and influence to the latter by their numbers, Which Wert:, when the harvest was ripe, applied •It au IN le and subdue their supporters, and to set at, hyj>ocuit ical Usurper upon the Throne of their utami(cti KLNG 1 .--POWER is the mime object o the real movers of the scheme, and money, nfconrse. the great sinew which is to hind it to their purposes. Hence, although if you coirodt their animal ac.- rou nts you will find the sobacription9 (0 an enormons and incredible sum—great part of it unapplied and funded, no incitement , s left 'milled, no motive unexplored, by which men in every sta tion of life may he drawn in to couiribute to 3 well the amonnt—froin gnivea to Peiory sabscriptions ! Hence, yon will constantly final that instances are brought for vaid in their public trieeiugs, Of some defalcation which is to he made up, or some fall off, which the delinquents (for whom, how ever, a becoming apology is made) are tvaroed to repair at some fotnre time—stone urgent rieces si,v for peroliar exertion, or some stupendous difficulty to b: overcome. Passing ()eel' another small piece of machinery, which is, however, of very important use in draw in: men over, I mean the fiatterin ,, unction and reciprocity of compliment with which the candi dates for oratotical celebrity mutually bedaub each other ; we bud in your republished account of the Shrew , biiry that the Rev. Nlr King, of Wellington, " remaiked, that the deficiency in the past year's subscriptions, in his vicinity, was ail to the decline of trade, and want of employment." Atter this hint, it will be impossi ble for poor people in the vicioity of the Re verend G eo ll e to, ol to avoid in future making up their deficiencit s, when trade shall have revived among them, especially as Robert Stephen, Esq. " one of the Deputies from the Parent Society," not o n ly bistaticed the moralizing influence of the Society (no instance, however, beitig adduced),hot -tared, " that such was the orgency of sovort ing it, that with ail i:s past success, it would re ((litre Six HUNDRED YEARS to supply the want of Bibles, even among the nations which profess Chris ! ! !" Good Master Stephen, is not this a hazardous calculation t Sorely the prospect is too despair ing to produce the intended effect ! What ! six h u nd r ed years of constant contribution to supply !tildes to the Christian population of the world ! Why the sieve of the.Dortaides was light task-woik in the comparison. Has the worthy and zealotet Deputy calculated what will be the wear and tear in the course of the supply, and the increase of population during the progress of it % Six him d,ed S ole ly, it would have sounded better, and have been equally convincing, bad he said six thousand !!! But to proceed to the next evi dence to the iofluence of the Bible Society. Tice l(ev. Mr. Davies (there are Reverends of all de nominations), trom Bombay," detailed many hor ible and cruel superstitions in the Buitish Settle merts in India." This, alas, is too true,—and yet '' such is the ardour of the natives to obtain Bibles, that the Armenian merchants could ob. rain hill price for them." This may go to prove that the traffic lii fifties is a good speculation for the Armenia! , intrchalos, but how the mama of the tut , Ives tor the Bible is to he accounted for, if they persevere io chic practice of " horrible and cruel superstitions," it Would he difficult to sur mise !—But these Speakers were mere whippers in Nom ti,e oc,-asion. The labours of oratory ev id ent ly d e volved upvir the Rev. John Richards, who, with a diffidence becoming Isis vocation, de clares Itims' lf,„ 1- sirous of being employed merely as a " ' wore, and drawer of water, in lie erection of the stupendous edifice, whose turrets already »ting,le with the skies" (anglic6, the Shrews bury Bible Society), but in a set speech, which most apparently have occupied more time than the whole collected body of orations uttered upon the occasion, sets himself to work, to dig the foundations and lay the stones—and to assume the character and ra!li of a master mason !—He as sores:his auditors that TH E BIBLE and the Bible Society are identified—which it it mean any thing, must go the length of proving the Bible Society to be a work tf inspiratiou—and this hewer of wood and drawer of water one Of its oracles, from his turret in the clouds ! There is, however, nothing new in this—some of the original builders of the edifice have said the same thing, though they louse not been so happy in the art of illostrstioo! Now if this worthy and Reverend Declaimer could • prove that the Materials with which he has erect ed his turret in Nubibus had been taken from the foundations of our prison houses ; if he front his elevation could have no longer discerned those dens of robbers and those haunts of dvlinquents and murderers, which we upon the level, alas, discern too clearly around us ; it he could have demonstrated that is single stumbling block had, in the progress of his work, been removed from before the footsteps of the criinioal—or that in the accession 'of such midi it udes of workmen as his brother builders and liituselt have drawn together, one single brand bad been snatched from the fire, we might hive participated in the zeal to which his cloud capt imagination has apparently given birth--and have entertained some hope, that he was serious when he spoke of " Ilse astonishing Revolutions which the Bible Society is effecting on the theatie of the globe, in the moral and spiritual conditions of mankind ! !*"chere is a homely but expressive axiom about a pin/ding, Sir, which, however I may be disposed to insinuate, I cannot venture to quote after the lofty flight I have been compelled to take with the Reverend Orator—but until sortie in fluence upon the morals of the people, some tangible proof of a better state of things, arising directly out of the immense and immeasurable means which the Bible Society has contrived to accumulate around it—until something beyond the actual and visible effect of drawing men from communion with . the Church of their Fathers ; something besides the association of Dissenters and Churchmen, in which the interests of the one 711143 i be sacrificed to the views of the other ; something superior to the petty vanity of popular exhibition, and some thing more substantial than the written and pub lished and proclaimed assertions - of the parties interested, shall openly and clearly snake their appeal to the plain common sense and perception of mankind, I trust that my loved Countrymen will continue firtnly and steadily to abide by the Institutions of their Fathers, and not‘suffer them selves to be 'drawn aside through the arts of de signing men, who have hit upon the expedient of uniting all denominations of Dissenters in one com mon centre against the Church, or to be influenced by the example of those of their own body, who, forgetting or neglecting the bands of union in THE SUN. SOLFM QUIS DICERS FALSUNI AUDEAT ? LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1818. THE QUEEN.—We are glad to find that more favourable accounts are in circulation respecting Her MAJESTY. The PRINCE REGENT, we un derstand, remained at Kew Palace till eleven o'clock last night, and the Duchess of YORK was there about two hours in the course of the day.— The following is the Bulletin of this day : " KEW PALACE, SEPT. 10. " HER MAJESTY has passed a good night, and continues much the same as yesterday. (Signed) " F. MILMAN. " H. HALFORD." We received this morning the Paris Papers of Monday last. The following are extracts : " PARIS, SEPT. 7.—Yesterday the King held a Court at the Thuilleries, which was attended by the Ministers, Marshals, &c. " A robbery his been committed at Vienna, rendered equally remarkable by its importance as by the difficulty of its execution. On Sunday tbe23d ult.whilst the Court were at theTheatre, some rob bers carried off the Cabinet of her Imperial Vigh ness the Duchess of Parma. The thieves pro bably entered by means of a chimney communi cating with another adjoining the Palace, and they then opened a door by means of false keys. The Cabinet was not missed till the next morning, when all search proved fruitless. — The loss is estimated at one million of Vienna currency. The Cabinet contained a great part of the jewels which were most fre quently worn by her Imperial Highness, and a number of French and Italian coins. The latter, being very little in circulation at Vienna, may lead to the discovery of the robbers. " A Letter has been published from General Donadieu, in which he states, that it was not as a witness, but on a charge of being implicated in the conspiracy, that he was summoned and inter rogated by the Juge d'lnstrgi•tion. " Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg arrived at Lausanne front Geneva on the 30th ult. i after dining at the Lintel de Faucon his Royal High ness continued Lis route fur Ikrue, where he will visit his sister, 'the Gland Duchess Constantine of Russia. " illAnarn, AUG. 25.—The last dispatches li cit% the Spanish Consul, at Tang' r, st?te, that the Spanish physician, sent by the Emperor of 'A l() ; rocco, had, after several observations, ascertained iff (hat the m a l a dy prevailing in Dior is the true plate of the Levant. It had n o t m , nch P r°. ,„ gress\st Tangier, but it wai li making gt 1' 8144 i in the neighbouring villages ; in that of llarcliob / out of 200 inhabitants 50 had &ed. 1 " VIENNA, AUG. 28.—The Emperor of A °9. tria is expected to proceed to Mavence about d ' e l 20th or 2241 of September, where Isis Impe ri i'" Majesty will he met by the Prince de Metternicb and the Baron de Frimont. " NUREMBERG, AUG. 30.—Prince Blucher, not being able to use the baths at Carlsbad, and bie disorder being daily increasing, has returned to his estate in Silesia. The motion of a carriage giving him pain he was conveyed on a litter. " STUTTGARD;AUG. I .3I.—OUE Journals fle °l the assertions of an English Paper, that th e affairs of Germany are to be discussed at ! be Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the only ohket ( the Congress being to decide upon the question ss to the withdrawing the Army of Occupation 101' France. " VIENNA, AUG. 25.—The departure of °l e Archduchess of Pat ma, fur parro,, is f i xe d f o rd' , 12th September. She will accompany the 0'11; peror and Empress to Lubeneck, and then re t " ll by 6altzburg to Italy." Affairs at Manchester, according to our a dvice : of this morning, have much improved in the c oats of the present week. for Johnson,, Drummond, and Bagueley, ee l sO,Ae, their conduct in 1817, were arrested an d u te tained in custody under the Suspension Act, h a been apprehended, and were taken to Ch ester' where they traversed the Indictments) 11 ' ~ r thereby have put off their trials. They , 13°- 6 04 ever, were recommitted till they should , re bail, themselves in 5001. each, and two - sa re ties in 2001. upon each indictment. Folic 11'°' rhar l" persons were indicted, viz. Wm. Temple, - 1 , 0 Boulton, John Gooch, and John Sevendale, le. also traversed, an„! whose trials are conseque (lf 00 14 put off. Bail was required, themselves in - ro c each, and sureties in 1001., and forty-eigh t hou notice to be given. We have inserted the Correspondence betwehe: the Home Department and Citizen Hur l ' cause our Country Readers may require it. ra 0 could be surprised at any thing coming I HUNT and his Party, we should be so at his p e, f stoning to suppose that the Declaration a n fig monstrance of himself and his Rabble we° ld at' received by the Secretary of State as rise o' „, wh ments of the People of Westminster, upon - 100 i it is a libel to impure to them the hackn e Y et mischievous trash with which they abounded. We request the attention of our Re aders ilii s Letter signed FENTON WYKE, in our POP— ° day, which is another of the series pron t—e e the learned and pious Writer, to whom often beets indebted for valuable c ontrib lit , e . which have eminently contributed to raise the r 0, potation of THE SUN, particulatly amo n g tbe thorized Members of the Established ChWeit'ote* somuch that it has been stiled r Ags polo' PAPER, an appellation of which We are o f t he We cannot pretend to knowledge enoug h a s s Sectarian projects which FENTON WYK B se : t hst fully to understand, and we can assure pot hare° he does us justice in supposing that we f sa l paid for the insertion of the accounts ° re J inne r BIBLE ASSOCIATIONS, but that We haVe orP Se s them, not being sufficiently aware of the p ° which our Correspondent imputes to the°. ir oer- We were, indeed, as he supposes , led t° beca' s se the article from the Shrewsbury Parr' c aop at we saw the name of a venerable Arcbdea so " the head of the Meeting, an d because it g very interesting an account of the quirements of one of its Members.-- vi ds light s re ly obliged to our Correspondent for the I s ing er he has thrown upon the subject, an cit# Orth ° wish that the authorized Members our o the alert 4 Church were in general as much upon lire co" as he has been upon many occasions. ' r " ' assure them that our chief aim is to or ,010 1 I ps hapPY all the ability we possess, our Co w extr‘avoertfleteolollo;4.„4 ment in Church and State, end that e nt. . 0 ; 0 0 9 _.., 0 1c shall be always open to their corn mu io no s., Far ire 0 directed to a purpose so laudable; , oto ttu a Cot 4, • e rn deed, essential to the support dot 'or tell °31 i n the which renders this Countryas in political freedom and security, as W rl se purest of all Reliaioes. t 11, IS" t By his Majesty's ship Hyaein t .ve lea rn 0 01 .. , Portsmouth from the River Plate , ' 010 0Y: 0 04 his Majesty's ship Blossom, c.rt, ,, in oir , sile c de his Majesty's ship Andromache, Gal ) The had arrived at. Valparaiso, early in 1 ‘ 14 4 60 ater l 'oar,' s upers herland, mountitig 50 gains, an d he Ott° also arrived at the above port for t" vice. which their Fathers bound them for the common security, suffer themselves to he led forth like victims, corered indeed with flowers, and adorned for the sacrifice, hut d est i ne d to h e i mmo l ate d, when the edifice (no castle in the air, as the Re verend Orator has poetically described it) shall he fitly completed, its instruments prepared, and its ministers at their pasts ! Let us ,hope that the example of a former age, before the consumma tion of the evil, which I view as otherwise inevi table HMI decided as effect can he deduced fro'm caos,th may. still. operate t 7) dispel. the iiiosions' which have been accnnoilating around the moral and political war Id for the last 30 years, and plunged an Europe, with the exception of our own loved Country, into a state of semi-barbarism ! CON- FusioN is the ripened harvest to the sickle of the Jacobin and Reformer, and nothing can contin gently so amply supply the materials as the crude assemblage of diverse and contending principles, under the notion of union. An unnatural roWE O is created, which has different ends in view, and in the explosion, which trust sooner or later take place in every coalition thus effected, the most active and mischievous parties will be sure to have the first eontroul in its direction. But I trans• gress the limits of a Journal. I shall only submit to the Reverend Declaimer to whom I am so much indebted for my subject, that his florid descrip tions have given rise to a train of reflections, at the end of which he may be surprised to find himself.—" And they said (he will know to whom I refer), co to—let us build ns city, AND A TOWER whose top may reach to Herren—ancl let us make us 3 NAME !.• Neither the design nor the ol!ject, any more than the figure, are new, he wilt admit ! Yet he, surely was not at the moment aware of this curious and fatal coincidence ! ! Hath BALAAM prophecied ! How were the vain hoastings and lofty aspirations of the builders of TOl3 TOWER requited ? By the CONFUSION OF TONGUES, " so that they understood not one ano ther's SPEECH ! Let us then hope and pray, that ova NE'..' BABEL, in the confusion of tong,ne3,which it makes its chief boost, may not issue in the ruin and dispersion of the National Institutions of this Country, hitherto blessed shove all nations in the mercy and protection of Divine Prowl fence. FENTON WYKE. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last N4fht. TuraTaEßovat,,CovEsz-GattnEs.—GuyManneringt Henry Bertram, Mr. Pyne ; Meg Merrilies, Mrs. Yates. After which, Aladdin. THF.ATIIE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.—The Green Man : Principal Characters by Mr. Terry and Mrs. Glover. After which, Lock and Key. To which was added, Barataria. THEATRF, %MU, ENGLISH OPERA, STRAND.—The Padlock • Leander, Mr.Pearman; Leonora, Miss I. Stevenson. After which, Amateurs and Actors. To which was added, La Perouse. MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Dublin, 1 Waterford, I Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Sweden, 1 France, I Malta. DUE-1 Sweden. I Hamburg ll. PRICE. OF STOCKS THIS IIAY AT T‘VELVE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Cons... 74 753 Exch. Bills, 2d... 185. 20s. pr. 5 per Cent. N. Ann.... 10511 i Ditto Commercial.... 2s. dis. Imperial 3 per Cent. Anil. 75i Oinninin .. dis. eill India 80nd5..... .84s. fins. pr. <'„n%. for Acconnt...764i 75/ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning, 40 minutes after 11. I Evening, 5 minutes after 12,